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4 Steps to Recruiting the Right Board Members for Your Nonprofit

Wild Apricot

There’s an age-old saying that goes, “You’re only as good as the people you surround yourself with.” This is certainly true in our personal lives, and the fact that the amount of spending companies have invested in recruiting.

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Is Facial Recognition The Future of Event Check-In?

AccelEvents

As we move into the digital age, an event planner can take advantage of useful technology to improve the quality of events and attendee experience. Whether it is embracing the virtual event, which is here to stay, integrating more creative ways to put on a hybrid event, or employing technology at physical events, event professionals should stay poised for these new opportunities.

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How can Big Data Analytics help in delivering personalized learning

Gyrus

Big data analytics tracks individual performance, automates assessments, boosts knowledge retention, and increases training ROI. Here is how you can deliver personalized learning with Big Data Analytics.

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Forward-Thinking Membership Models for Associations

Nimble AMS

Subscription models are all the rage these days. Almost everything is sold as a subscription today – from razors to exercise and clothing. Industries everywhere have begun to adopt subscription models. What about associations? Day-to-day consumer and technology experiences play an important role in your members expectations.?Your members now expect the same convenience of a personalized, digital experience with your association that they’re seeing in other areas of their lives. ?

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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8 Club Website Templates + Examples to Inspire You

Wild Apricot

If you run a club, then you know how important it is to have a place where your members can go to for important information, register for events and meetings, and support each other and your mission. That’s why you need a club website. Wild Apricot’s.

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Nonprofit Resource Roundup (February 2021)

Blue Fox

If you’re like us, your daily inbox is jam-packed with newsletters and educational opportunities from like-minded social impact leaders. These spectacular humans work around the clock to foster positive change in their communities. Then, somehow, find time to share their story with fellow nonprofit enthusiasts. We tip our hat to them! Here are just a handful of our favorite nonprofit resources this month: (Online Class) Be an Effective Board Member (Required to Create Free Account) (eBook)

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Stop expecting nonprofits to merge. It’s annoying.

Nonprofit AF

A long while ago, I directed a small nonprofit that focused on supporting the Vietnamese and other immigrant and refugee.

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Use These Eight Steps to Design an Effective Nonprofit Board Training Program

Wild Apricot

Picture this: you’ve just recruited an incredible new board member. They have great skills and connections, they’re passionate about your cause and they’re eager to help advance the success of your nonprofit. But you don’t have.

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How to feel more confident

Hands on Fundraising

Confidence. About a year ago, I saved an article. Just tucked it away in a file. Written by Margie Warrell, the article is titled: The Confidence Gap: Six Ways Women Can Dismantle The Hurdles In Their Own Heads. Though her focus is on women, this may be a topic you have considered whatever your gender. […]. The post How to feel more confident appeared first on Hands-On Fundraising.

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7 Tips for Combating Virtual Event Fatigue

AccelEvents

2020 may be firmly in the rearview mirror, but the coronavirus pandemic is not. This means that for the foreseeable future at least, event professionals will have to continue to plan and host hybrid or virtual events. While these event formats offer a number of benefits, like increased revenues and greater audience reach, there is one significant drawback—screen fatigue!

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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Hybrid vs. Virtual Fundraising

OneCause

The post Hybrid vs. Virtual Fundraising appeared first on OneCause.

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Don't Delay Tough Conversations With Your Employees

Eric Jacobsen Blog

If you have an employee who needs to improve his/her performance don't delay the tough conversation with them. If you don't address the issue right now, the employee has little chance to improve and you'll only get more frustrated. Most employees want to do a good job. Sometimes they just don't know they aren't performing up to the required standards.

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Power of Storytelling | Orbis shows donor love on Valentine’s Day

Pamela Grow

Monthly giving is vital. If you’ve been following me for even a short time, you know how important I know it is. Did you know… “Sixty percent of donors under 35 give monthly.”. “The average monthly gift is $24, or $288 a year.”. “Monthly donor retention rates: 90 percent and up (double the average donor retention rate of 45 percent!)”. When you think about growing your nonprofit’s sustainer program, are you thinking about your monthly giving case for support?

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Is Facial Recognition The Future of Event Check-In?

AccelEvents

As we move into the digital age, an event planner can take advantage of useful technology to improve the quality of events and attendee experience. Whether it is embracing the virtual event, which is here to stay, integrating more creative ways to put on a hybrid event, or employing technology at physical events, event professionals should stay poised for these new opportunities.

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Nonprofits Are Leveraging the Cloud, but Does It Have to Be So Complex?

Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.

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Connecting in a Disconnected World: A Recap of our “Teeny Conversation”

Top Nonprofits

In 2020 you stopped in-person programming and shifted what you could to virtual. While some of your audience followed, do you know what happened to the rest? As you plan to shift back to ‘normal’, will those that dropped off come back? In this session, we discussed what retention has looked like for organizations during COVID-19 and what predictions we have for audiences returning.

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How Leaders Connect With Team Members

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Here, from the book, Be A Network Marketing Leader , are some tips on how, as a leader, you can connect with your individual team members: Send cards on their birthdays and anniversary-of-joining dates. Keep yourself updated with what's happening in their personal lives. Show your support during personal or family crises. Schedule weekly one-on-one phone calls or meetings.

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Best Practices and Strategies to create an Effective Learning and Development Program

Gyrus

Employee training and development is a crucial part of human resource function and management. Both the activities aim at improving the productivity and performance of the employees. Here are some practices and strategies you can use to create an effective learning and development program.

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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 183: Moving Your Organization from Scarcity to Abundance

Connection Cafe

Sometimes, change is hard – especially when it seems that there isn’t enough money or other resources to accomplish your organization’s mission. However, by adopting the right mindset, social change leaders can begin to attract more support. That’s where today’s guest comes in. Nell Edgington is the president of Social Velocity, a management consulting firm for nonprofit organizations, and the author of Reinventing Social Change: Embrace Abundance to Create a Healthier and More Equitable World.

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Nonprofit Technology Kick Start: Free World Class Board Meeting Software

Looking for cost reductions for your nonprofit? Why not consider modernizing with a digital board management system that's designed to work with remote meetings, with immediate cost reductions if you still distribute paper packets to members? Get going in less than an hour on a fully hosted cloud solution built on the latest technology that runs on any device - from desktops to tablets and smartphones - without any installation.

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Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility

VolunteerMark

The social responsibility program by million dollar companies is one of the effective ways to reach more audiences. The programs intend to provide advancements using various ways to society and the environment. Many companies use annual donations and environment-based programs to create awareness and encourage employees in social causes. Corporate companies’ impact is high because […].

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Today's Leadership Quotes

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Some of my favorite quotes for leaders are: A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit -- Arnold H. Glasgow I praise loudly, I blame softly -- Catherine II of Russia Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress -- Mohandas Gandhi A long dispute means that both parties are wrong -- Voltaire The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable -- Paul Broca These and many more compelling quotes can be found in Susan

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The Best Platform to Get Your Compliance Training Done

Gyrus

Gyrus is one of the leading platforms where you can leverage easy compliance training online with just a few simple steps and enhance your employee training program!

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5 Tips for Successful Online Giving Days

Connection Cafe

Higher education giving has traditionally relied on major gifts, annual funds, and direct mail as the primary means of engaging new donors. While that worked for decades, the Information Age has taken university giving online in a big way, with email, text to give, social media and general online giving quickly taking the place of mailers. Compounded with the impacts of COVID-19, schools around the world really had to adjust their engagement models.

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Donor Engagement Guide: 8 Key Steps to Better Retain and Engage Donors

Are your donors your biggest fans, or are you lacking donor loyalty? The truth is, your donors have expectations of what their relationship with your organization should look like. This ebook will help you learn how to live up to those expectations!

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Web Courseworks Wins Silver for Excellence in Technology

Forj

The 2020 Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards in Technology Web Courseworks Wins Silver. Web Courseworks, a leader in innovative learning management systems and virtual event technology, won a coveted Brandon Hall Group silver award for excellence in the Best Advance in Technology for Virtual-Classroom or Conferencing Technology category. Web Courseworks’ win was announced on December 10, 2020, and the full list of winners can be found here.

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The Live Enterprise Model

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Authors Jeff Kavanaugh’s and Rafee Tarafdar’s new book, The Live Enterprise , is all about how to create a continuously evolving and learning organization. They explain that the very nature of organizations has come under pressure. The way we think about experience has changed. Value chains have changed. Decisions are the triggers of the digital economy, the actions that initiate response and provide its shape and direction.

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What Makes Gyrus One of the Best Employee Training Software

Gyrus

Learn why you should choose Gyrus for the most efficient and sophisticated employee training software.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific Goes the Distance to Make a Difference in Employee Engagement

Connection Cafe

As we continue to highlight ways corporations can encourage employee health and wellness throughout early 2021, we wanted to share how our customers were implementing some of these techniques in real-time, making an impact in their workplace and communities. Thermo Fisher Scientific’s corporate social responsibility team wanted to create an engagement opportunity for employees that incorporated a fitness challenge.

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Nonprofit Technology Adoption: Why It Matters and How to Be Successful

Organizations like yours are increasingly realizing that technology adoption is only as good as the technology you choose. Statistics from a 2014 NTEN study show that seriously investing resources in training for your staff corresponds to higher adoption and ultimately technology effectiveness. In this report, we’ll give you a high-level overview of how to get your organization in shape for technology adoption and best practices for facilitating this critical process.

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Guarantee Your Success—Network Like Your Career Depends on It

.orgSource

What’s the single best thing you can do for your career? It doesn’t require special training, it’s never too late to get started, better still, it will return your investment of energy and effort many times over. With all those pluses, why isn’t building a strong network at the top of every leader’s list of […]. The post Guarantee Your Success—Network Like Your Career Depends on It appeared first on.orgSource.

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The Future Of Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Timely, critical, instructional and enlightening are how I describe the new book, Work Disrupted , by Jeff Schwartz. “I wrote this book to share my view that the future of work, a source of fear for so many, is actually about the opportunities, the resilience, and the growth that we can leverage to do things differently,” explains Schwartz. He adds, “My work on this book had been well underway before the global pandemic took hold in the early 2020.

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Ethical Storytelling + Nonprofit Fundraising

Greater Giving

Telling one person’s emotionally compelling success story through an appeal video can be the single most powerful way to inspire donors to give generously. There’s even scientific research to back this up! But asking someone, especially someone who is already in a vulnerable situation, to share what is typically a deeply personal and sensitive story can create a host of ethical dilemmas.

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7 Tips for Combating Virtual Event Fatigue

AccelEvents

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Achieving Organizational Transformation: Pathways to Success

Association executives—and hopefully their boards—know that they are facing perilous times. Driven by the pace of cultural and technological change, they are experiencing major disruptions in the traditional business models that used to guide organizational growth strategies.orgSource offers a straightforward approach to navigating these changes and readying your organization for growth.